Angel Rubio#
| Membership Number: | 4185 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.mpsd.mpg.de/en/research/theo |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Distinguished Research Scientist, Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute, New York
- 2016 - present Professor , University of Hamburg
- 2015 - present Faculty member of the Wolfgang Pauli Centre, Hamburg
- July 2014 - present Scientific Member and Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg
- Since Dec-2014 Distinguish Professor: Condensed Matter Physics Dpt. Física de Materiales, UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain
- 2009 - 2011 Max-Planck Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Fritz Haber Institute MPG Berlin
- August - September 2014 Miller Visiting Professor, University of California at Berkeley
- April 2001 - Dec.2014 Full Professor of Condensed Matter Physics (chair), UPV/EHU
- Since 2002 Director of Nano-bio Spectroscopy group of the UPV/EHU
- 2007 Professor (1ere class), Universidad de Montpellier 2, France
- 2005/2006 Professor (Humboldt), Freie Universitat Berlin
- Professor, Laboratoire des Solides Irradié, Ecole Polytechnique, France
- Dec.2000 - Apr.2001 Associate Professor, Dpt. Física Teórica, Atomica y Nuclear, Universidad Valladolid, 1994-2001
- 1992 - 1994 Fulbright Fellow, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Firs principles modelling
- Electronic structure methods
- TDDFT and QEDFT
- optical spectroscopy
- time-resolved spectroscopies,
- Foundations of time-dependent density functional theory
- Foundations of Many-Body Theory
- Extended systems: solids, liquids, Applications
- Theory of Open quantum systems.
- Strong light-matter interactions
- Optimal control theory
- Nanostructures and nanotubes
- Nanocapilarity
- Nanoplasmonics
- Electronic and thermal transport
- Code development
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences
- 2018 Max Born Medal and Prize
- 2016 Medal of the Spanish Royal Physical Society, Madrid, December
- 2016 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2016-2021 European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (QSpec-NewMat)
- 2016 JSPS Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan
- 2015 XV Manuel Laborde Werlinden Prize for the best technology-based business initiative based on innovative ideas: "Materials Evolution"
- 2014 Premio Jaime I de Investigación Básica
- 2014 Foreign associate member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) of United States
- 2011- present External Scientific Member of the Fritz-Haber-Institut-Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- 2011-2016 European Research Council “ERC Advanced Grant” (DYNamo)
- 2010 Fellow of the American Association for Advanced Science (AAAS) (Physics Section)
- 2006 Dupont Prize in Nanotechnology, Dupont Foundation
- 2005 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award, Humboldt Foundation
- 2004 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), Division of Materials Science
- 1992 Spanish Royal Physical Society Prize “Jóvenes Investigadores” Madrid. Spain
- 1992 Honor Prize for the best Ph.D. Thesis in Physics University of Valladolid, Spain
- 1989, 1st National Prize for Graduated in Physics
- 2009 American Chemical Society (ACS) recognition (2011) and Outstanding Referee, American Physical Society
- 1992 - 1994 Fulbright Fellow
- 2008 - present Chair of the European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility (ETSF) (2012-2013) and Vice-President for Scientific Development
